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Building on a model used in the health services literature, this artic
le examines differences among problem drinkers in treatment and in the
general population to understand treatment utilization further. Discr
iminant function analysis showed significant differences between treat
ed and untreated groups for men and women. For women, lifetime general
treatment history, ethnicity, and employment were major contributors
to the model; for men, the most important variables were social conseq
uences, treatment history, and employment. For women, only the domain
of individual predisposing variables provided a unique contribution to
the model (p < 0.01). For men, the individual predisposing (p < 0.001
), need (p < 0.001), and enabling (p < 0.01) domains did so. Findings
indicate important differences in the factors that influence treatment
entry for women and men.